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We've published a bit of a general news update from silverorange:

🎨 We’ve redesigned our own website
🏗️ Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP
📺 Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada
📚 A round up of articles we’ve published

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silverorange digest Fall 2025 Edition
In this edition of the silverorange digest: We’ve redesigned our own website Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada A round up of article...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congrats to our client, AIR (Atlantic Institute for Resilience), on their partnership with CAN Health, providing digital tools to boost mental health resilience among health care professionals. canhealthnetwork.ca/digital-prog...
Digital program boosts mental fitness and resilience among health care workers - CAN Health
September 23, 2025 (Halifax, Nova Scotia) – AIR (Atlantic Institute for Resilience), a Canadian technology company focused on well-being, released promising results from a digital resilience initiativ...
canhealthnetwork.ca
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Responsive web design is about more than screen width. Our lead front-end developer Maureen wrote about how internationally-aware fonts, support for dark mode, and accommodations for color and motion preferences are all part of being responsive to people's needs: www.silverorange.com/blog/what-do...
What does it mean to be responsive?
A typical approach to responsive web design is “mobile-first”. Get the essentials right for the smallest canvas and then work up to the desktop design. But how responsive is your design to user font s...
www.silverorange.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ryan Kay, a developer on our app team focused on Android and backend development, shares his Law of Suitability, and how it can help you identify the best water bottle, programming language, or development framework.

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How to Choose the Best Programming Languages, Libraries, and Patterns
In my first few years learning software development and building applications, I was quite interested in finding the best programming language, platform, libraries, frameworks, patterns, and architect...
www.freecodecamp.org
August 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hey, @neal.fun's delightful crowd-driven neal.fun/internet-roadtrip drove by the silverorange offices on Prince Edward Island! 👋
June 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Helen, a great designer here at silverorange, has shared her experience with Sara Soueidan’s practical-accessibility.today course. It's targeted for developers, but it's critical for designers to understand the fundamental accessibility issues in the web. #gaad

www.silverorange.com/blog/practic...
Learning Accessibility as a Designer
silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Global Accessibility Awareness Day #gaad is happening this week and we're sharing a bit of how accessibility factors into our work at silverorange.

Our Director of People Management, Nikki Mifflen-Mitchell, has written about Accessibility in our hiring process: www.silverorange.com/blog/accessi...
Accessibility in our hiring process
silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
www.silverorange.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The phrase "gild the lily" implies unnecessary ornamentation.

Our Creative Director, Steven Garrity, has written for Smashing Magazine to encourage you that a little touch of what might seem like unnecessary ornamentation in design is exactly what you need.

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild...
Gild Just One Lily — Smashing Magazine
“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and...
www.smashingmagazine.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We’ve redesigned our silverorange.com website, bringing it into its fifth era. In this redesign, we've leaned on the illustration talents of one of our great designers, Jacky Gilbertson who wrote about the design, the process, and a few (literal) easter eggs:

www.silverorange.com/blog/website...
silverorange | building powerful web-based systems
silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
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March 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our Director of People Management, Nikki, on how and why she came to work at silverorange (we're so glad she did!)

blog.silverorange.com/why-silveror...
Why silverorange?
The collective thoughts of web design and development firm silverorange
blog.silverorange.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by silverorange
On day 16 Maureen Holland tells us why we don’t need the isOpen class. #HTMHellAdventCalendar

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
You don’t need the isOpen class - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
December 16, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Our own Maureen Holland has contributed to the 2024 #HTMHell Advent Calendar: htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

It’s great to see Maureen’s expertise on display in the great company of writers like John Allsopp, Léonie Watson, and many others.

blog.silverorange.com/htmhell
You don’t need the isOpen class - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
December 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
At silverorange, we use our Employee of the Year to highlight something (not an employee) that we loved about the year. In 2024, our Employee of the Year was the amazing crochet slices that Jose’s partner Anita made for *all* of us.
December 2, 2024 at 7:52 PM
As part of our (remote) company retreat this week, we're seeing how far 38 of us can collectively walk.

In Lord of the Rings terms, we've made it 10% of the way from The Shire to Mordor in 2 days.
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 PM